State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Previous studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the...
EAN: 9780521534536
Prelude to the Mahdiyya
During the first colonial period (the Turkiyya, 1821–85), the Shendi region of the Northern Sudan...
EAN: 9780521534444
Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500
In this 2002 book, David Powers analyses the application of Islamic law through cases which took...
EAN: 9780521816915
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali
This account of Egyptian society in the reign of Muhammad Ali traces the beginnings of the nation...
EAN: 9780521289689
Subjects of the Sultan
Explores the unknown world of ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire, filled with vivid detail of...
EAN: 9781850437604
Algeria, 1830–2000
A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty...
EAN: 9780801489167
Desert Rats
Authoritative profile of the glamorous Desert Rats brigade
EAN: 9780755312894
Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam
Adam Sabra explores poverty and charity in medieval Islamic society. Thus he sheds light on a...
EAN: 9780521772914
Nile: Sharing a Scarce Resource
There is increasing awareness that the volume of water available in the Nile Basin is...
EAN: 9780521450409
Skeletons On The Zahara
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and...
EAN: 9780099435921
Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28
Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the...
EAN: 9780714617961
Muslim Brothers in Pursuit of Legitimacy
EAN: 9781850436324
Suez Crisis 1956
In July 1956 the Egyptian President, Gamal Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal, causing immediate...
EAN: 9781841764184
Sustainable Development
Based on case histories in the Third World, this book is an expansion of the authors' previous...
EAN: 9781853830884
Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire
This major contribution to Ottoman history is now published in paperback in two volumes: the...
EAN: 9780521574556
In Morocco
Exploring the country and its people during the final days of World War I, Wharton's classic...
EAN: 9781850436393
Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in...
EAN: 9780801485152
Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman
A study of sex in ancient Egypt. It considers sex in its broadest sense, analyzing not only the...
EAN: 9780710305305
Kilim: The Complete Guide
An examination of the origins and history of kilim textiles. The core of the book is devoted to...
EAN: 9780500282212
Wanderings
In one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the...
EAN: 9780801487798
Stargate Conspiracy
*Subtitle: 'Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact, military intelligence and the...
EAN: 9780751529968
After Tutankhamun
Commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of work in the royal burial ground by the...
EAN: 9780710304063
Arabesque
The author returns to the countries of Turkey, Lebanon and Morocco in search of new and old...
EAN: 9780718145811
